Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Blessing in a disguise (3)

Nano quickly helped the activation of the flow of energy within Yeowun’s body . After a long time, Yeowun opened his eyes . He then smelled the foul stench from the black ooze and took off the clothes that were drenched in the ooze .

“Ugh… this is really disgusting . ”

He was able to forget about the smell while meditating, but he couldn’t bear it anymore when he was awake . He then felt the heat within the cave . It seemed like the energy activation within his body let out some heat, warming up the entire cave . Yeowun then felt heaviness under his stomach and felt the weight of his internal energy .

“Whoa . ”

He gasped in astonishment . The whole incident was a blessing in disguise . The internal energy that was just over sixty years worth now had ninety years worth of energy . Baek Oh’s action had resulted in helping Yeowun instead of harming him .

‘…He really did give me a gift then . ’

Baek Oh’s small gift had turned out to be a huge gift . Chun Yeowun’s internal energy was now within the top five out of all the cadets .

‘I would have died if it wasn’t for Nano . ’

Nano had given unfortunate Chun Yeowun a climactic turn in his life .

‘I was really lucky this time . I never thought the Poison Clan would go so far . ’

He then thought that it was good experience for learning how his wrong decision might come back to him .

‘It was an important lesson . ’

He was lucky this time, but Yeowun decided to not make any foolish mistakes .

‘So, what is this?’

Yeowun then got up and walked to the inner part of the cave . It was too dark to see in the cave, but Yeowun had night vision from Nano .

‘Nano, night vision mode . ’

Yeowun was then able to see the inside of the cave . A part of the inner wall was broken when he was thrown into it by Baek Oh .

‘Something felt weird . ’

Yeowun felt like the inside of the wall was empty when his back hit the wall . He felt curious, but he had to focus on taking care of the poisonous medicine ball he ingested .

“Oh?”

Air was seeping out from the cracked part of the wall . It was proof that there was space on the opposite . Yeowun then became curious .

‘Let’s check on it . ’

Yeowun began to tap the cracked side with his fist . The wall had too many cracks in it and the slight tapping made it fall apart, making a small hole that Yeowun could crawl into .

‘There we go . ’

The hole let cold air come in from the opposite side, making the cave a bit cooler . Yeowun then crawled into the dark hole . He then frowned .

‘Huh?’

Unlike his expectations of seeing a bigger cave, it seemed like a tunnel-like cave that connected somewhere else . Yeowun then got up and looked back . The cave wall was shaped as if it was made artificially to block it . The opposite side looked natural so he didn’t realize it, but it was very apparent from this side .

‘Was it blocked off intentionally?’

It seemed like something was hidden inside . Yeowun then thought about going in when Nano’s voice called out to him .

[Detected faint natural light coming from the tunnel . ]

Yeowun became curious . The only possible natural light source in such a cave could only be from a firefly . Yeowun then began to walk in . The cave was located on the peak of the mountain, but this tunnel seemed to lead him below .

‘It’s getting brighter…’

As Nano said, the green-colored light began to grow stronger . He now didn’t need night vision mode to see anymore . Yeowun then deactivated the night vision and walked in . Soon, he then reached the closed end . It shined very brightly with the light . Yeowun then took a step forward and almost fell . The ground in front had a huge hole .

“What in the world…?”

Yeowun looked down, but he couldn’t see anything . He then jumped down . It was a few meters deep, which was not safe for any normal human to jump down, but Yeowun was able to land easily with his walking skill .

He then looked up to where he had come from . The entrance he went through looked more like an air vent from what he saw from below . The space he was in now was very wide .

“Whoa . ”

Countless light-emitting stones were on top, brightening the entire place with the green light . It was so bright that it was hard to even look up at it .

“To think such a place was hidden inside the prison cave . ”

It was amazing . He looked around and found a round stone pillar in the middle and nothing else . There was an exit at the southern side of the cave, and that was blocked by a stone from the outside .

‘It’s an unused place . ’

It felt strange to not use such a nice place .

“Huh?”

Yeowun then looked down and found traces of something being dragged out . From the size of it, one could tell that it seemed like a large stone was pushed out from it . As he followed the trace, it led him to the center of the area .

‘There’s more than one . ’

The trace was made by more than once . It seemed like something was placed in five directions around the pillar until it was dragged out . It must have been very heavy if it made such a deep trace .

‘It looks like there must have been some kind of giant stone… a pedestal…?’

Yeowun then thought of the blue pearl pedestal in the library . He then realized the library had five floors, which meant that the pedestal was also created through the five levels .

‘Nano, activate Augmented Reality and show me the blue pearl pedestal on the first floor in the library . ’

[Activating . ]

Yeowun then was shown the actual size of the blue pearl stone .

‘Nano, do you see those traces on the ground? Can you see if this stone was placed in any of those spots?’

[Analyzing the traces on the floor . ]

Nano then began scanning the five spots and placed the same blue pearl stone over the five spots . And when they were all in place, Yeowun’s eye grew larger .

‘It has the same size . ’

The size of the trace and the stone were the same . When the five stones were placed there, the one located on the south side shined in red .

[This location seems to be where the blue pearl stone from the first floor was located at . ]

Yeowun then walked over to check it out himself .

‘Can you check the second floor one too?’

Nano then began scanning everything, and it seemed like the second stone was located on the southwest side .

‘Ah… so, this was the place . ’

It seemed that all those stones were originally placed here . If all of them were still here, then it would have been much easier to learn about Father Chun’s original sword skill .

‘What is up with this pillar then?’

Yeowun was curious as to why all these stones were placed around it while facing the pillar . Yeowun walked over and looked around . On the north side of the pillar, there was a letter written in handwriting .

[Sword Force of the Sky Demon]

Yeowun felt his heart pounding . He then found a small dots that looked like those under the writing of the blue pearl stone which showed a drawing .